Egophoricity

In linguistics, egophoricity refers to a grammatical category that marks one's personal involvement in an event.^[1] In languages with this category, an egophoric form is used for expressing information to which the self has "privileged access"^[2] as opposed to an allophoric (or non-egophoric) form.^[1][3]

Egophoric forms are typically associated with first-person subject declarative sentences and second-person subject interrogative sentences (egophoric distribution).^[4]

The concept of egophoricity was originally developed in descriptive studies on Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in the Himalayas such as Newar and Tibetan; however, the category has also been found in languages of Northwestern China, the Andean region, Caucasus, New Guinea, and elsewhere.^[5]